Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms

Just when Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang were discussing how to reasonably defraud money from Liu Zhang's old uncle, the personnel sent by Liu Bei finally arrived at Yinping County.

"What, Liu Xuande came to see us?" Yuan Shu had a weird expression on his face. No, they haven't started executing the plan yet. Why did Liu Xuande come over? Hey, that's not right. They never thought of defrauding Liu Bei of his money. .

If Liu Bei says he has money, he is considered rich. If he says he has no money, he really has no money. The amount of money given by the country every year, the money earned by his eldest wife and his younger wife, and the dividends and other things that Chen Xi gets for him are just the amount. Speaking of it, there is no problem in killing Liu Yu.

The problem is that Liu Bei issues discharge certificates every year, and then when he sees disabled soldiers and veterans in trouble, he will pay them some subsidies out of his own pocket, and sometimes he even goes to see them. Reassure them to stay strong and survive.

It sounds like I don't have much money, but I can't help it so many times. I do this every year. It's thanks to my wife that I can actually make money. Otherwise, this family would have collapsed long ago.

The middle-level bureaucrats don't know much about this, but guys like Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang know it well. They agree that Liu Bei is indeed benevolent because of these useless details.

"Why did the clan brother come to find us? Have we done anything strange recently?" Liu Zhang also had a worried expression on his face. He couldn't remember what he did!

"No, since the second half of last year, we have been working hard for national construction, and even the gambling industry has stopped. Do you remember the last time we were in prison?" Yuan Shu also looked weird, and then He turned to look at Liu Zhang and asked.

"That's right. It's been a long time since I last went to prison. I haven't messed around recently. It seems that the clan brother has some ideas. Forget it, let's go to Chengdu first and ask. Anyway, there is no messing around this year. , Don’t worry." Liu Zhang patted his chest and said confidently.

At this time, the two of them had basically finished their inspection in Yinping County. They originally planned to go to Zitong County to have another look, but now that Liu Bei was here, they had to go see Liu Bei first, so they rode on their beloved Gungun and headed straight for Chengdu. There is a saying that Sichuan and Shu are indeed suitable for rolling.

After all, Gungun itself has the characteristics of climbing uphill and rolling downhill, fun!

In Chengdu, Liu Bei has already met Chen Deng, the newly appointed governor of Yizhou, and Sun Qian, who was also in Chengdu recently. These three people are also old acquaintances, the kind who only see each other a few times a year, so after meeting him, he found a place Eat and drink. In China, eating and drinking are often considered rituals!

"Yuanlong, how do you feel about coming to Yizhou?" Liu Bei asked Chen Deng with a smile after drinking a few glasses of wine. If Chen Deng didn't miss his family too much and valued his own family's development too much, with Chen Deng's Regarding the relationship between ability and Liu Bei, there is no problem in entering Chang'an. It's a pity that he didn't keep up with the trend of the times. He made a mistake in the last step and made a mistake every step of the way.

"There are huge differences from Xuzhou in many aspects, including local customs, climate and environment, views on many things, etc." Chen Deng said with some emotion, "Relatively speaking, the central Sichuan area, that is, Chengdu The plains are better than Xuzhou, both from a strategic perspective and from a life perspective, Xuzhou is peaceful and the place where the Four Wars took place."

"Yuanlong, the way you look at the problem is still the same as in the war years." Sun Qian said a little tiredly, "In fact, given the current situation, I am afraid that even if a war breaks out in the future, some outstanding people will be there in a short period of time." Time wins overall.”

"Yes, the transportation network from north to south and east to west is really too convenient. While the speed of freight has been greatly improved, it also means that the efficiency of legion transportation has been improved. The significance of the road logistics transportation network was even more obvious during the war years." Liu Bei He nodded and said.

"After these transportation networks were built, many places have become very different from the isolated islands they once were." Sun Qian dipped his finger in some wine and drew a road grid on the table. After all, most of the Central Plains He built all the main roads with his own hands, so Sun Qian knew what kind of layout and what kind of places it involved.

"Hey, we were still poor back then. If we weren't poor back then, these places wouldn't be like this when they were built." Sun Qian pointed to the Yanzhou area with a very dense transportation network. From Sun Qian's perspective now, the layout of these roads There are some problems to some extent. You must know that this is a main road, but there are some layout problems at the national level. The impact is really big.

"I can't tell." Chen Deng shook his head. There are specialties in the art industry. Sun Qian's more than ten years of work were not in vain. He just did one thing and did it as best as possible. Now, even if It would be difficult for Chen Xi to surpass Sun Qian in this matter.

"Probably it's because we didn't capture the entire Central Plains back then and considered road planning and layout with a state-by-county mentality." Liu Bei looked at the horizontal and vertical stripes and said with some speculation, although Liu Bei didn't understand either. This, but Liu Bei has seen a lot.

"I remember that last time when I visited the east with Chen Hou and the others, Chen Hou seemed to have said the same thing when he was cutting off the large-scale industries in the east." Xu Chu, who had been sitting aside as a wooden man, heard Liu Bei's words with a bit of excitement. Siyou said.

"Yes. On the one hand, we did not capture the entire Central Plains at that time. On the other hand, many of our planning and design levels did not reach the current level. In the early years, there was no such easy-to-use spiritual talent as Zhao Junqing." Sun Qian said with emotion that Sun Qian was building roads without Zhao Shuang, but after using Zhao Shuang's computer, he really couldn't live without it.

"Then you mean to rebuild it?" Liu Bei looked at Sun Qian tentatively. Chen Deng, who was holding the wine bottle at the side, was so frightened that his hands trembled. "Liu Xuande, listen to what you are talking about!"

"No, I just feel that the technology back then was limited and left some historical problems. It is impossible to rebuild them. Unlike Zichuan's situation when some industries were cut off at the time, if I start the road construction in the east, I am afraid countless bureaucrats will fight me. Sun Qian shook his head and said.

Chen Xi's cutting off those industries will not have any impact on the local people's livelihood. Even if someone else takes over, there will not be much change. But if Sun Qian demolishes and rebuilds the main roads in the eastern region, then the current bureaucrats in the eastern states and counties will really I will risk my life with Sun Qian.

When the road was built, those bureaucrats would kill Sun Qian now. This is no joke. After all, what did that road bring? What will be lost if you lose that road? Some determined bureaucrats moved the city directly to the main road, re-planned and developed it, and now it is finally prosperous. Sun Qian touches the local main road?

That would cost the lives of these bureaucrats!

It doesn't matter if there are one or two Sun Qian at this level, and ten or eight are nothing, but if it affects hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of people's livelihoods, Chen Xi will not mess with it, but if he just stands purely for the country Discussing it from a standpoint, there were indeed some planning problems with those early roads.

It's just that now it's an issue left over from history, and it can only go on like this.

After listening to Sun Qian's explanation, Liu Bei realized that he had asked a stupid question. As expected, he had never thought about this kind of problem before. Although he had seen many such situations in the eastern states and counties, he still couldn't. I really haven't thought about why this is the case.

"Sure enough, all walks of life are not easy." Liu Bei said with sigh, and then looked at Chen Deng and Sun Qian, "Actually, I went far this time. I left Chang'an and walked west, followed the road to Hanzhong, and then I thought I was already in Hanzhong, so I came here to have a look, and then I came over. Speaking of which, this is my first time in Chengdu."

It was because Xu Chu was following him that Liu Bei was able to suddenly change his mind and suddenly travel from Chang'an to Hanzhong, and from Hanzhong to Chengdu. He saw a lot of new things along the way.

"It's about as good as I expected." Sun Qian stroked his beard and said with a smile, "How did you feel about this journey?"

"After walking a short distance and feeling it, I can only say that the road you built, Gongyou, is really a contribution to the present and will benefit the future." Liu Bei praised with emotion.

Although Liu Bei also knew that the work Sun Qian had been dealing with was very important to this country, walking on the road in the eastern plains and walking on the road in the Sichuan and Shu areas were completely different feelings, at least in the eastern plains. In the area, Liu Bei can still walk on those dirt roads. Without Sun Qian's road, it is not impossible to go, and it is not too difficult. At most, it is difficult to transport, but this kind of thing, individual feelings will not too deep.

But things were different here in Sichuan and Sichuan. Liu Bei walked the Sichuan-Sichuan Ancient Road once. How should I put it, it was not a place for people to walk. It was simply too difficult to walk. The plank road was really deadly.

According to Liu Bei's estimate, as far as the plank road is concerned, let alone giving anything away, it is estimated that it will take a year or two just to get out of the mountainous area. With Sun Qian's repair of the roads from Chang'an to Hanzhong and Hanzhong to Chengdu, If you really have to work hard and don't care about the loss of horses, you can get there in a few days.

When Lindai's group sent Masinde to Chang'an, not to mention how troublesome it was for Lindai's group to come down from Zangzhou. After entering Hanzhong and hitting the road, it actually only took one day to reach Chang'an.

This is why the Faqiang and Qingqiang in Tibetan areas strongly demand that everyone who succeeds as governor builds roads for them in Tibetan areas. It’s okay if you haven’t experienced it. After you experience it, you can’t get through without building two roads. This is a hurdle. How efficient others are is not what they are.

For Faqiang and Qingqiang, the distance between where they live and Hanzhong is not much further than that between Hanzhong and Chang'an. This is also the reason why Fulward came up with the world earthquake plan in the first place. To put it bluntly, the two sides are really far apart. Recently, if there was a Han-Chengdu Expressway, Fulward could lead his army directly to Chang'an City in two or three days.

Two or three days, what does this mean? It means that there is no need to reserve food and grass. Each soldier can rush through with some dry food.

Not to mention the capture of Chang'an City, an armed parade with tens of thousands of people under Chang'an City was enough to lose half of the Han Dynasty's face.

However, there is no road. Every time Qingqiang and Faqiang leave Tibetan areas to come to Hanzhong, it takes more than ten days to dozens of days. Compare the time it takes for the same distance from Hanzhong to Chang'an, Qingqiang and Faqiang Even if you don't have any brains, you can't bear it.

It was precisely because of this comparative understanding that Liu Bei could clearly feel what kind of work Sun Qian had done over the years and how much impact it had on this country.

"Bless me with a bottle." Liu Bei said with a smile, and Sun Qian was not polite. He sometimes felt that his head was heavy due to the work he did, and when he recalled it before going to bed at night, he felt that it was outrageous, but he fell asleep. time, you will still be satisfied with your achievements.

"It's not easy to do." Sun Qian drank the wine and said with some emotion, "But the most difficult part has been solved, and the rest will probably be completed in two to three years."

"From Chengdu to the Ganges River?" Liu Bei asked with a bit of surprise.

"Yes, I have basically repaired the mountainous part. The only thing left is to connect various sections of road. This will take a year. After passing this mountain forest, we will enter the central and southern region, and then go all the way west. That's it. There are no more mountains." Sun Qian said with a smile.

Although the war on the front line has stopped, the support from the rear has not stopped. Sun Qian is still working hard to build his own roads. Detailed geological surveys of Indochina Peninsula and road planning have also begun. It can be said that the Han Dynasty had great influence on Kushan. The truly fatal move is only now beginning to unfold.

Compared with the less than 200,000 army troops fighting in Guishang due to various logistics, management and other problems, Chen Xi's plan from the beginning was to build the Southwest Passage, and then mobilize the power of the whole country to have Liu Bei personally sign it. General mobilization of the war, mobilizing two million troops, to eliminate Kushan in one fell swoop.

The First Emperor destroyed Chu, and it would have cost him 600,000 to truly destroy the Chu state. The Han Dynasty had to annihilate the Kuishangs, and they had been bleeding for so long. If they really wanted to kill the Kuishangs, they would probably need 2 million. However, the Han Dynasty had not carried out general mobilization before, and maintained With a normal troop size.

But just as Chen Xi estimated, after more than ten years of war and constant rotation, the Han family now has a stable organization of more than two million people, with a full-fledged legion from the top to the commanders and corps commanders. That is true. Can be pulled out.

He and Guishan were grinding slowly, and Chen Xi could not guarantee how long it would last. Just like Severus killed Anxi, Rome worked hard to bleed out the blood before, and after grinding for hundreds of years, Anxi looked like he was going to die, but if Severus hadn't taken out the He defeated Rome's capital and went directly to Ctesiphon. In the case of Vologis V, if he touched it again, Anxi would be alive again.

Therefore, a war of attrition is not advisable. Guishan relies on a large enough foundation. In the attrition, so-called heroes and heroes will inevitably be born, and batches of elites will inevitably be born. This is an inevitable reality. The so-called This is the ultimate sublimation.

As many heroes as Anxi can appear when the country is destroyed, Kushan can appear. After all, when every dynasty ends, in addition to a lot of shameful traitors, there will also be countless people with lofty ideals who use their lives to fulfill their oaths.

What's more, in the official history of the Kushan Empire, this was still the last period of the empire's rise. It had not yet reached the level of domestic corruption, civil servants' factionalism, and military generals' strife. It was basically still united.

Therefore, when Chen Xi made the plan from the very beginning, he was not prepared to rely on the small Ganghe main force of 200,000 to eliminate Kushan. There is a saying that for Chen Xi, the small Ganghe main force of 200,000 was just on the table. target.

From the beginning, from the first time Chen Xi mentioned the Ganges River, from the moment Chen Xi made up his mind to destroy Kushan, all plans were not centered around the Ganges War, but around the Southwest Passage.

"If I remember correctly, Zichuan seemed to have proposed the Southwest Passage before Yuan Fengnian." Liu Bei asked with some memories.

"Yes, Zichuan decided to build this very early on, but the appearance of Guishang made him accelerate this idea and subsequently attack Guishan. Zichuan's focus has always been on how to repair the Southwest Passage. "Sun Qian nodded and said.

"I remember Zichuan said that if the Southwest Passage is completed, it seems that it will only take about three months to transport the army directly to the Ganges River?" Liu Bei asked with a hint of thoughtfulness.

"Yes, this is indeed the case when the grain and grass logistics are ready." Sun Qian nodded and said, "And Chang'an, the starting point, itself gathers a large amount of grain and grass in the Central Plains. After all, it is the capital of the country, and the problem of grain and grass has never existed since the beginning. It wasn’t a problem to begin with.”

Liu Bei frowned. Although Chen Xi had told him before about how to quickly kill Kuishang, compared to the previous verbal description, Liu Bei clearly realized Chen Xi's plan at this moment.

"Gongyou, how many veterans do you have under your command?" Liu Bei looked at Sun Qian and asked.

"Only count the Sichuan and Sichuan corps, or all of them?" Sun Qian asked with a frown.

"All calculated." Liu Bei looked at Sun Qian, while Chen Deng was holding a wine bottle on the side, vaguely feeling the difference in realm between the three of them, while Xu Chu was burying his head in his elbow.

"420,000 to 440,000 veterans." Sun Qian thought for a while and gave the answer. He will also continue to count the veterans, so the number is still guaranteed.

The veterans who retired from Ganghe were basically resettled by the Han Dynasty, and the best place to resettle them was actually Sun Qian's construction team.

Because they are available everywhere, would a veteran in Xuzhou be willing to hang out in other states or counties, or would he rather hang out in the construction engineering team of his own state or county? After all, some simple skill training does not take much time for veterans. As for the hard work Whatnot, I don’t pay much attention to these these days.

Therefore, over time, the number of veterans on Sun Qian's side will become very outrageous. It was not a joke to say that Sun Qian could fight in the Imperial War before.